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Re: Is debhelper build-essential?



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:26:52PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Also of interest is that some 1300 packages would no longer need to 
> > declare a Build-Depends: at all with those changes, and another 1200 
> > wouldn't need to declare a Build-Depends-Indep:.
> 
> Not even versioned depends?

Not if build-essential included a suitable versioned depends, like
debhelper (>= 4). It already does that for gcc.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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